The Spill
These Two Celebs Are In A PR Relationship & Inside The Will Arnett and Amy Poehler 'Scandal'
25 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the live-action Magic School Bus film?
Esa sent a message asking where they would park their car at the end of the week when they come to us. Do you remember anything here in the central area?
She said she would buy a parking spot in Finpark for the visit.
Park took care of all of them. Drive your car to the park.
Finpark.
From Mamma Mia, welcome to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura Brodnick. And I'm Em Burnham. And coming up on the show today, the people will be excited about this, Emily, because everyone's always saying, that's a PR relationship and that's a PR relationship, and most of the time they're not. But now we have a real PR relationship happening right now. All the signs are there.
For everyone who posts that comment, this is your moment. This is your moment to shine.
This is your moment to be right. And say it with guttural intent.
Yes, say it with your chest. So we're going to go through exactly what that is, the signs to look for, and some other couples who have pulled off PR relationships. Plus, you have something you need to discuss. Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, something with their marriage has come out and it's fired people up. Guys, I've dived deep into this.
Amy Poehler not super involved in this, but her photo is in the middle of the story. And I can just imagine her being like, God damn it. Come on, guys. Come on, guys. But we're going to get into that. But first, I have some movie news.
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Chapter 2: How do we identify a celebrity PR relationship?
Exactly. Not for the male gaze. I feel like she was the original man repeller because she would just wear a crazy like dress themed on whatever adventure they were going on. And one time she wore jeans and I was like, whoa. Whoa. Groundbreaking. This is, yeah, this is not for kids. Yeah. And, like, the accessories and stuff.
Like, I feel like there was a time in my life where I dressed like Miss Frizzle. And she also drove that bus. And she drove the bus. She was doing it all.
She was doing it all.
There's a slight issue with child endangerment. Who's to say? Obviously the parents didn't know that their kids were going in this magic school bus on adventures.
And there was always that one, like, snotty kid, Arnold, who was like, I don't want to do this. I'm like, Arnold, count your blessings. Yeah, Arnold, you're in a good spot. I'm at school. Yeah. In the classroom every day.
Yeah. Our excursions don't look like this. So yes, the animated series ran from 1994 to 97. Lily Tomlin, as in like a critically acclaimed actress, voiced Ms. Frizzle in the animated series.
And then she came back for the Netflix series, which we don't really talk about. Well, Kate McKinnon was- Yeah, played her younger sister. Yeah. Do you not like that? Well, it just didn't hit the same way. And I think that's mainly because I watched it as an adult. Maybe kids liked it.
Maybe kids liked it. I just feel like the OG series. And then we also have the actual books, the Magic School Bus books. They're iconic. Do you want me to tell you who's playing Miss Frizzle? You might have seen in the live action. I have seen. I'm very excited. It's Elizabeth Banks.
I think she's going to do an amazing, amazing, amazing job.
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Chapter 3: What signs indicate that Alex Earl and Benson Boone's relationship is PR-driven?
And he's working with Legendary Productions. And the last time we had this combo was for Detective Pikachu.
Yeah. Did you not like Detective Pikachu? Did anyone? No. Is that the one with Ryan Reynolds? Yeah. I've got to say I was not like super across what was happening in that movie. I think we all as a collective pretended it didn't happen. Yeah, I could not tell you the plot. And, you know, that's very rare for me. Usually like the movie is burned into my brain.
He also did the 2015 Rob Letterman, the 2015 movie Goosebumps. Which was better. With Jack Black. Yes, I like that.
I did actually like that. So, like, he has adapted something before. He loves an adaptation. Whether he's good at it or not, to be seen. No, but I am excited for Elizabeth Banks. And also, there are some scenes that we got away with with the animated series that I'm wondering if they'll make it live action.
Oh, like what?
There was an episode where they were inside the human body. Yeah. And to get inside the human body, they went through the rectum. What? ! The bus went through. The bus went through. I don't want to know.
Wait, do I want to know how?
I haven't seen this episode. I can't even remember whose body. I think it was one of the kids' bodies. What?
Sorry, that's not okay.
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Chapter 4: What details emerged about Amy Poehler and Will Arnett's past relationship?
It was quite like scary. There was one time.
But you don't expect a magic school bus to do that.
No, but it did. It like shrunk down. And then did it come out the same way? No, it came out through a sneeze through the nose. Oh, okay. But we like discovered the whole, like I learned a lot about the human body. No.
No, I know. That's fine. But can I just say the Atomorphs went into a human body as well and they didn't do anything weird like that.
That's true. But yeah, there have been some like scary-ish episodes. There was ones where they went into space and you learned a lot about space. And then Arnold, I think, accidentally took his helmet off.
Oh, well, if he did that, his head should have exploded. It did. Can you imagine that? That's in the live action. That child just dies.
That's what I thought was going to happen because I knew that from watching, I think it was like a polo or something. I was like, this is scary crap. But he didn't. He just got a cold.
Oh, okay.
So that wasn't factual.
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Chapter 5: How did Will Arnett respond to questions about his marriage to Amy Poehler?
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Okay, so it's finally happening. We have a real-life celebrity PR romance. PR from the outset. Look, maybe love will evolve, but right now that's not what's happening. Interesting. And I'm talking about influencer Alex Earl, who has a podcast, very famously left Alex Cooper's podcast network.
who I recently discovered from that episode we did about Alex Cooper's network, that they are two separate people.
They're two separate people. She got massive on TikTok, as did her family, became super famous.
Are they still having that feud publicly?
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of celebrity relationships on public perception?
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's his whole thing is he wears a sparkly outfit. Yeah, he's got like a moustache. Yeah.
Leotard backflips off the piano.
And he gets really upset when people say anything about his backflips. He gets like, he's like a bit emotional about it. Why? Well, he doesn't like people to make fun of him. Because remember Rene Raff and Amy Poehler, when they did Amy Poehler's podcast, were just like, it's pretty like embarrassing when men backflip. And there's only one man in the public sphere backflipping. Yeah.
And he responded and was like, hey. He made a statement. He made a statement. He was like... On behalf of backflips. He's like, I reserve the right to backflip as much as I want. My body, my choice. I respect that. You do deserve the right to backflip. I just don't want to see it. Yeah, you reserve the right to look away.
So the reason these turn the headlines at the moment is they are out and about for dinner. Is he backflipping? He's backflipping. That would actually be so fun. I would love that.
I think what's worse than backflipping publicly on stage is backflipping on a date and making her watch. Yeah. That's worse. Yeah.
It gives look at me mum energy. You don't want that in a date. Well, there's no video or photos of him backflipping, but there are a lot of videos and photos. That's our first clue. There's a lot of videos and photos of Alex Earl and Benson Boone out about having a dinner date. And they went to Craig's or Craig's if you're in the U.S., Craig's.
Because you know how we pronounce that like so differently?
Yes. My dad's name is Craig and no one understands. I think that's mainly because he has a bit of an Indian accent, but he says Craig like the US way and no one understands it.
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Chapter 7: Why are Amy Poehler's reactions to media coverage significant?
This is our clue. No one says I'm going for the food. Right. You go to be seen. Got it. Because it's one of those places in LA where paparazzi are like outside all the time. Do you guarantee to get papped? Yeah, exactly. And it's one of those places that I've heard a lot of people, like the people kind of like me, like the desperados who were just going to LA to see celebs would go early.
And then once they clear out, then they let the celebs in.
So it's kind of like the Chateau Marmont.
Yes, exactly. It's one of those places, and there's no, from my understanding, no underground parking, no way to sort of slip in through the back. So you have to go. You have to do a pap walk out the front, which is fun. A lot of people go there to get papped, and that's part of their night out. So that's where Alex Earle and Benson Boone went.
They also kind of like, again, this is why we think it's a PR relationship because they were photographed walking in. They look like they expected photographers to be there. Like they look kind of like, you know, they're not trying to like rush in through a side door or anything like that. They're smiling at photographers. They're smiling at each other. They're sort of holding poses.
Kind of like when Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster announced their relationship.
And it looks like they're doing like a cover shoot.
Yeah.
through pat photos it's like if you know you're being photographed and the photographs are for something yeah then you hold yourself in a different way you can always tell when a celeb is like what and when they're like they're surprised by a photo so how do you know the difference between them doing it for pr versus a genuine couple who just want to show everyone that they're together because i think that's where i was conflicted with meryl streep and martin short
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from the dynamics of celebrity relationships?
Yeah, like Meryl Streep, Mutt & Short, their currency is not that type of publicity. Their currency are their names.
So this only works for people who need the currency to be.
Yeah, whereas Alex Earl and Benson Boone, I think also when your audience can skew a bit younger in this sense, like their audience would very much be like they have to feed the news cycle a bit. Also, TMZ reported a little while ago that Alex Earl was starring in Benson Boone's new music video and that she was like a big part of that and that they had been filming that behind the scenes.
So like that came out and it wasn't official because it's meant to be a secret, but it was like confirmed to a lot of different sources. Yeah. And so, I mean, there is a world in which they met on the music video, fell in love and are dating, but the timeline is questionable. Now they're going out and about and they're not kissing. There's no like big rumors.
So it's almost like when you're doing a PR relationship, one, you have to have something to gain. So she has projects coming out, he has new music coming out. They want people to go and watch this music video when it comes out to see if they can see their chemistry. It's kind of like with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell.
They never really wanted us to think they were dating because they were both in relationships. They kind of peppered little moments in so that everyone would go and see Anyone But You because we wanted to see the chemistry on screen. So yeah, the rules for a PR relationship, you have to have something to gain.
That's a direct, that's not just a bit of exposure because exposure, unless it's pushing someone to go watch something, doesn't really do anything for you. Like the news cycle goes so quickly. Two is that you have to have an easy out. Like those people who like fake, like people say that they fake relationships for years and years on end. They walk red carpets together.
Those are not PR relationships because the fallout is quite extensive for them and the PR fallout is more to deal with than what they got for their project. That's so true.
If that makes sense. Which is what I think like happened kind of with Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell because they were both in relationships with people who also realised that they We also have a platform, which is the whole thing about Glenn Powell's ex-partner putting out that statement. Whereas with Benson Boone, like he's broken up with his long-term partner, Alex Earl's single.
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